Kouth Korean rap phenomenon Psy forced YouTube to reset its views counter after his music video ‘Gangnam Style’ breached the website’s viewing threshold of 2.1 billion views. The rise of the nondescript singer-songwriter to superstardom on the back of YouTube underscores the power of the internet when it comes to democratising content and spawning superstars.…
After providing technical skills to 3,021 youths from backward districts of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and West Bengal, the New Emerging Technology (NET) Skills Project supported by the European Union (EU) and the Department of Science and Technology is set to be replicated across India.
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Mashable, the leading media company for the Connected Generation, and India.com Web Portal Limited, India’s fastest-growing and leading publisher of original content, on Wednesday announced their partnership to launch Mashable India.
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While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been pitching hard for the Digital India project, universities and institutes in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have not taken a cognizance of it. The University Grants Commission (UGC), as part of the Digital India project, had asked all State Universities and institutes to submit the status…
When India beat Pakistan in its first cricket match of the ICC World Cup 2015, in Adelaide on Sunday, the team created history in more ways than one. First, it maintained its unbeaten World Cup record against its arch-rival. And second, the match recorded a little more than 25 million views on the digital platform in India — one of the highest for a single…
The Digital India vision of PM Narendra Modi seems to be floundering as his plan of empowering people with I-ways, is falling weak. According to the target set by the Government of India for 2014-15, 50,000 villages were to be connected through a national optic fibre network by the end January. However, only 12% of…
The upcoming Union Budget is very crucial in terms of bringing the Indian economy back on growth track; curb the budget deficit and creating an investment friendly environment.
The Budget needs to address issues of simplifying tax regulations, improve ease of doing business and accelerate the speed of big ticket tax reforms.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has said on Tuesday that the beheading of 21 Christian men in Libya was a “vile crime targeting people on the basis of their religion†and urged Libyans to unite against extremists.
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Two Uzbek human rights activists have not been allowed to travel to South Korea’s capital, Seoul, to receive an international award.
Tashkent-based Shukhrat Rustamov said on February 16 that Uzbek authorities had denied “exit visas” to him and the chairwoman of the Uzbek Human Rights Defenders’ Alliance, Elena Urlaeva.
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Kaspersky Lab, a Russian producer of software security programs, has not ruled out that the US National Security Agency (NSA) could be involved in cyberespionage using hard drives made by top manufacturers, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
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